Share

Department of Defense

Washington Report
(March 3, 2015) Army National Guard officials at the National Guard Bureau announced last week the location plan for the first three of an eventual 10 new Army National Guard cyber-protection teams to be established over the next three fiscal years.
The first of three CPTs to be... Read more

Washington Report
(March 3, 2015) Three National Guard members last week described the faults in the Army's plan known as the Aviation Restructure Initiative, saying, among other things, that the nation would lose the decades of experience Guardsmen have flying and maintaining the complex AH-64... Read more

Washington Report
(February 24, 2015) Eighty men and women with expertise in national security have signed an open letter to House and Senate leaders to end the spending limits required by the Budget Control Act and adequately fund the military so it can address threats around the globe.
Former... Read more

Washington Report
(February 18, 2015) Defense Secretary Ash Carter took the reins of the military Tuesday at the White House and immediately addressed an issue that impacts all corners of the agency he leads.
In a letter to military members and Defense Department civilians, he called sequestration... Read more

Washington Report
(February 10, 2015) Two members of the House, including a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard, have told their colleagues that sequestration is hurting military readiness and called for the automatic budget cuts to be lifted from defense spending.
"We believe alleviating the... Read more

Washington Report
(February 3, 2015) The Army National Guard would shrink by more than 8,000 soldiers under the fiscal 2016 budget released Monday by the White House. But the Air National Guard would gain 500 members.
And those soldiers and airmen, along with all other military members and federal... Read more

Washington Report
(February 3, 2015) The Air Force will try again to remove the A-10 Thunderbolt II from its arsenal. In the president's budget released Monday, the service makes the same attempt it did last year to retire the aircraft, but, as happened last year, some members of Congress plan to... Read more

WASHINGTON (February 2, 2015) ― The National Guard Association of the United States today released the following statement by retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, the NGAUS president.
“National Guardsmen nationwide applaud the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission for providing... Read more

By Ron Jensen
January 30, 2015
NGAUS sees much that National Guardsmen might like in the report released Thursday by the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, but the 15 recommendations made by panel members after two years of study and input from 150,000 interested parties... Read more

Washington Report
(January 27, 2015) Army National Guard soldiers who were set to replace forces in Senegal and Liberia fighting West Africa's devastating Ebola outbreak will not be needed in that effort, Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday.
Soldiers from four Guard units would have... Read more